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The cessions also set the stage for the settlement of the Upper Midwest and the expansion of the U.S. into the center of the North American continent, and also established the pattern by which land newly acquired by the United States would be organized into new states rather than attached to old ones.
The state of Texas confirmed its first case on February 13, 2020, and many of the state's largest cities recorded their first cases throughout March. As of late May 2021, there were 50,198 COVID-19 related deaths reported in that state. The death rate in Texas was 175 for every 100,000 people, while national COVID-19 death rate was 179 per 100,000.
In 1845, the Republic of Texas was annexed to the United States of America, becoming the 28th U.S. state. Border disputes between the new state and Mexico, which had never recognized Texas independence and still considered the area a renegade Mexican state, led to the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). When the war concluded, Mexico ...
New Maryland-Sunbury, a former provincial electoral district (1994-2023) that elected members to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title New Maryland .
In 1840, by order of the Maryland state legislature, the non-religious St. Mary's Female Seminary was founded in St. Mary's City. This would later become St. Mary's College of Maryland, the state's public honors college.
Towson University, founded in 1866, is the state's second largest university. In 1974, Maryland, along with seven other states, mainly in the South, submitted plans to desegregate its state universities; Maryland's plans were approved by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. [214]
She then left Texas but returned in the later 1820s as a bona fide colonist. Jane Long claimed to be the first woman of English descent to settle in Texas, and her daughter Mary is often said to be the first child born in Texas to an English-speaking woman, [ 1 ] but this has been disproved by census records from 1807 to 1826 which show a ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 February 2025. County in Texas, United States County in Texas Gaines County County The Gaines County Courthouse in Seminole Location within the U.S. state of Texas Texas's location within the U.S. Coordinates: 32°44′N 102°38′W / 32.74°N 102.64°W / 32.74; -102.64 Country United ...